More than one in ten 14-year-olds admit to binge drinking
24 January 2018: Just under half of young people in the UK had tried alcohol by the time they were 14, with more than one in ten confessing to binge drinking, new findings from the […]
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Minimum unit pricing must be implemented in England ‘without delay’
21 January 2018: Leading representatives from the health, homelessness, children’s and religious sectors, along with 45 Parliamentarians, have today called for the Westminster government to introduce minimum unit pricing in England without delay. The call […]
Awareness of drinking guidelines remains low, 2 years after their release
8 January 2018: Government and the alcohol industry are failing to provide drinkers with the information they need to make the right choices about alcohol – both for themselves and for their children. New figures […]
Drink drive risk as breath tests fall by 25%
8 December 2017: A new analysis of police data has revealed that both the number of officers on England’s roads and the number of breath tests they have conducted have fallen by a quarter in […]
AHA response to the Autumn Budget 2017
22 November 2017: Responding to the announcements made on alcohol in the Budget today, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance, said: ‘Today’s budget represents a huge missed opportunity for the Government to […]
AHA celebrates turning 10 years old
22 November 2017: The Alcohol Health Alliance UK (AHA) celebrated its tenth birthday today at a special event in the House of Commons. Set up in 2007 by Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, then-President of the […]
Widespread support expressed for duty increase on high-strength cider
22 November 2017: AHA members, MPs, doctors, religious leaders and researchers are among those who have signed a letter calling on the Chancellor to raise the duty on cheap, high-strength cider in the Autumn budget. […]
Doctors, MPs and religious leaders welcome Supreme Court judgement on minimum unit pricing
16 November 2017: AHA members have signed a joint letter published in the Daily Telegraph today welcoming the unanimous judgement from the UK Supreme Court that minimum unit pricing can go ahead in Scotland. The […]
Minimum unit pricing ruled legal
15 November 2017: Responding to the UK Supreme Court judgment that minimum unit pricing is legal, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said: “We are delighted with the Supreme Court’s […]
Health experts call for action on children’s drinking
2 November 2017: Figures released today indicate that over 1.3 million secondary school pupils in England have tried alcohol, with over 200,000 reporting that they have been drunk once or twice in the month before […]